Warning: Some delays to completing orders are expected because of scheduled maintenance at Companies House.
CloseThe name you choose to give your company will be subject to Companies House approval. That is why Step 1 of forming a company is to check the availability of the proposed name. Our home page links directly with Companies House web check service and generates a report from them.
Companies House has rules for determining whether a proposed name is the same as an existing company’s name. The following attempts to disguise the similarity of a proposed name will fail:
Examples are; "and" and "&", "plus" and "+", "1" and "one", "6" and "six", "€" and "euro", "$" and "dollar", "%" and "percent", "@" and "at". For more guidance see the Regulations
You can use the same name in the following circumstances:
You will need to supply documentary evidence to support your application to use the same name.
There are words and expressions that cannot be included in a company name without additional evidence to justify their inclusion. These are words and expressions which, when included in a company or business name could:
For a full list of sensitive words and expressions see the Sensitive words
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